Essay About True Love

True love is having an absolute devotion and everlasting admiration for your significant other. True love is not a temporary sensation that will end up vanishing over time. For some people it true love is a fairy-tale and for others true love is a dream come true. In order for two individuals to even entertaining the thought of becoming married, they must experience true love first. In the “Passionate Shepherd to his Love”, some of the readers see Marlowe’s poem as an indirect proposal to a woman he feels much affection towards. I believe that this is not the case at all; I believe that Marlowe is trying his best to false advertise his real feelings about the woman, in order to seduce her.

In the poem the initial gift offered by Marlowe is natural beauty in the forms of birds and animals singing songs of love, waterfalls, and beautiful hills. Then he makes a proposal to use the beauty as her clothing; which means that her clothes will be the result of the work they get from the land. Marlowe then finally offers the community as a gift by saying that shepherds will dance and sing for her entertainment. And if the woman were to come and live with him than all of the gifts would be hers for the taking. What I noticed is as the poem went along, the gifts change from minor realistic things such as: beds of roses, and lamb's wool, to less natural items such as: coral clasps and amber stud, till the point where he started to offer up unrealistic and luxurious things such as: platters of silver and tables of ivory. However it would have been possible for Shepherd to produce the initial gifts of flowers and the wool, but it would not have been remotely possible for him to get the jewelry. It would have been impossible for him to provide t...

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...undaries. To further help the Shepherds argument, his poem was also a pastoral poem, which does justify his exaggerations made using nature. And I totally agree with all of those points, but I still believe that the young Shepherd’s motives were to just seduce the girl, and not truly love her for al eternity. Reason being is because there was no evidence at all that suggested he loved this woman for the person she actually was. There were no intangibles mentioned when he was comparing her to all those wonderful things, just her body. And if you are going to marry someone, you better be in love with the person they are first, the outward appearance is just a bonus. In regards to the poem being a pastoral poem, Carpe Diem also was a hot topic right around the same time this poem was made. That means the young Shepherd was only living for the now and not the long run.